Curriculum for pupils of twelve to fifteen years : (advanced division).

Date:
1931
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Credit: Curriculum for pupils of twelve to fifteen years : (advanced division). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . Maps. Pictures of typical scenes of foreign life. . Photographs and portraits. . Coloured illustrations from some current maga- zine, e.g. L’[llustration. 7. “‘Realien,”’ including coins, stamps, calendars, magazine advertisements, and advertisers’ pamph- lets, menus, tickets, copies of faire part, etc. 8. Sets of post-cards and facilities for grouping them. 9g. Material collected by pupils. 10. Gramophone records and gramophone (cf. supra). 11. Wireless. The illustrative material should be changed at suit- able intervals in order to stimulate interest. Written W ork.—The best form of written work at this stage would be a few grammar sentences, sometimes from, but more often into, the foreign tongue. Dictées and practice tests on work already prepared should be done in class. In the third year some continuous translation into English might be attempted and repro- duction exercises from reading books. A Foreign Correspondent.—Whilst acknowledging the value of first-hand intercourse with the foreign country, we are of opinion that little good can be achieved by this means except in the third year, and then only in special cases (¢.g. where the two correspondents have some personal connection with each other) and with the teacher’s help and supervision. Reading Courses—We had under review various ‘Reading Courses” in operation, and came to the following finding :— That further organised experiment along the lines of Reading Courses should be encouraged. The